Inaguration of the video art Rekonstruktion - Psyket by Anna Odell
- Date: 6 May 2025, 15:15–17:30
- Location: Uppsala Biomedical Centre, Öbrinkrummet (A7:308)
- Type: Cultural event
- Organiser: Centrum för medicinsk humaniora, BMC
- Contact person: Erika Sigvardsdotter
On May 6th at 3:15 PM, the video artwork Rekonstruktion - Psyket [Reconstruction - The Psychiatric Ward] by Anna Odell will be inaugurated. The video work has now been permanently installed at BMC. Mandatory registration via this link.
What happens within the staff group when a patient under obligatory psychiatric care becomes pregnant – and the father of the child is one of the carers? What do they talk about? What do they remember? What did they write in the medical records? These are questions posed in the video artwork Rekonstruktion - Psyket by Anna Odell, which is now being permanently installed at BMC. The artwork, a two-channel video, approximately an hour long, has been installed in a meeting pod, furnished with screens for viewing and a sofa for those who wish to experience the work. The pod is located near the reception and is accessible to students and staff, as well as the public during normal office hours.
Anna Odell was an artist-in-residence at the Centre for Medical Humanities in the autumn of 2023, and it was during this period that the work was created. The Public Art Agency Sweden purchased the video artwork, with the intention of installing it at Uppsala University. Now the installation work is complete.
Program
3:15 PM Welcome
3:20 PM Panel discussion participants:
- Anna Odell, artist
- Ylva Söderfeldt, Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities
- Pontus Aspenström, Director at the Biomedical Centre (BMC)
- Henrik Orrje, Director at the Public Art Agency Sweden
- Marcus Rancken, Strategic Property Developer, Akademiska Hus
The moderator is Erika Sigvardsdotter, Coordinator at the Centre for Medical Humanities. The discussion will be held in Swedish.
After the panel discussion, there will be a mingle in the Öbrinkrummet, and an opportunity to view the pod with Rekonstruktion - Psyket.
Mandatory registration via this link.
The video artwork being installed at BMC is owned by the Public Art Agency Sweden, and the meeting pod in which it is installed was purchased with support from Akademiska Hus and the Public Art Agency Sweden. The work was produced during Anna Odell's artist residency at the Centre for Medical Humanities, Uppsala University, with support from Region Uppsala.